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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:42:08 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[What draws you to this book?  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/208824-great-spooky-fall-reads</link>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:00:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's been a while since I read Beloved.  I think you're right, horrific is the better description of it.  Slavery as the base and then the craziness.  It wasn't fun to read, difficult really, but oftentimes that's T Morrison, in my opinion.  I did think it was a book of value.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:59:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Typing too fast, I meant &quot;easily rival a chain&quot; but I haven't had caffeine yet today.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:13:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Catyche, you said this is a book to own, not borrow and I believe you're right.  A good friend loaned me The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and I loaned it to my husband who returned it but this brings it home.  I want my own copy!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2731276.The_Story_of_Edgar_Sawtelle">The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/982213.David_Wroblewski">David Wroblewski</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:26:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. This is a first novel by Wroblewski and I love the way he carefully uses words to draw clear, detailed, breathing awareness.  The story line grabbed me right away.  A mute boy in a rural family where the business is raising an intuitive dog breeding line and away we go.  It's a sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31827719">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:28:43 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[OK, I read it.  And went back to it night after night.  I did want to know how things turned out for Gilbert, could identify with her early in her &quot;pray&quot; cycle as I've never been able to sit still and effectively meditate either.  But she made it happen and I just decided, personally, not to head in that direction.  I enjoyed following her growth in Bali, learning from her friends in a foreign culture and that rang very true to me.  All in all, I'm glad I read it and am envious of someone who could take a year to figure herself and her life out.  What a luxury.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:35:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Haven't started this one but would like to understand the major world religions more thoroughly so that I can understand why we are at each other's throats all the time.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43944.Suite_Fran_aise">Suite Française  (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22493.Ir_ne_N_mirovsky">Irène Némirovsky</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:34:08 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've started reading this and I like to finish all books I start.  But I put this down in the middle and haven't gone back to it in months.  It's not grabbing me.]]></body>
        
    
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